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finished reading Our Missing Hearts

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former …

I would hope that I would be the one with the courage to resist. I’d settle for being the one who resists privately but keeps up a front of being complicit. Sadly, I know the fear of losing my child would be too much for my heart to bear so I suspect I would be the neighbor who keeps her mouth shut in the face of injustice.

Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking (2005, A. A. Knopf) 4 stars

"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't …

Grief is a universal experience but it’s also a topic we tend to avoid as to not upset anyone. For the author to share her grief of suddenly losing her husband with her readers was such a relief to me. There seems to be a secret timer set on how long you can grieve before you’re expected to “move on.” You can only talk about the good times, not the pain their absence has caused. I could see where this book would help anyone suffering from a loss.